Diversity of Life Review Sheet
Honors Biology
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Eubacteria
- Be able to formally define bacteria, and their niche in the environment
- Structure: be able to describe the bacilli, cocci, and spirilla
- Genetics: be able to describe the bacterial chromosome, and plasmids (and their ability to be easily
transferred between cells)
- Energetics: be able to describe the significance of the different ways bacteria get energy and raw materials
- Oxygen tolerance: be able to describe the evolutionary significance of obligate anaerobes, facultative
anaerobes, and aerobes. Be able to describe endospores
Archaea
- Be able to formally define archaea
- Be able to explain the differences between bacteria, archaea, and eukarya
- Be able to explain extremophiles, and give some examples
Viruses
- Be able to formally define a virus
- Structure: describe the role of the capsid, envelop
- Be able to describe host specificity, and the lytic and lysogenic cycles
- Be able to explain why viruses cannot be treated with antibiotics, but can be prevented with vaccines
- Be able to explain retroviruses, and the importance of reverse transcriptase
- Be able to describe the contraction and progression of HIV
Prions
Be able to formally define a prion
Be able to describe the contraction and progression of prionic disease
Protists
- Be able to formally define protists, and their niche in the environment
- Be able to describe the three groups of protists
i. Protozoans (Model organisms: Amœba, Paramecium)
ii. Phytoprotists (Model organisms: Diatoms, Euglena, Kelp)
iii. Mycoprotists (Model organism: Slime mold), and the significance of sexual reproduction
- Be able to explain the evolutionary advances made by the protists
Fungi
- Be able to formally define fungi, and their niche in the environment
- Structure: be able to define/label spore, hypha, mycelium
- Reproduction: be able to explain the Alternation of Generations
- Be able to explain fungal impacts on humans.